Charles Krauthammer

So that's interesting.

Uh, that's Charles Krauthammer, the late Charles Krauthammer, who we were big fans of back in the day, 2016, when I suppose...

Huh, who was...

Uh, Trump got elected in '16, so it was at the end of Obama's...

You just, it just reeks of it.

I say this all the time, the late Charles Krauthammer, y'all remember him? And he was a psychologist or a psychiatrist or whatever.

He studied the art of psychiatry.

And the way he explained it was if we could do it all over again and we had to have one legal intoxicant, cannabis would have been the preferred option by far because it just does.

You can't have people standing in the way.

The popular form of that was Charles Krauthammer years ago saying, to understand American politics, you have to know that liberals think conservatives are evil and conservatives think liberals are dumb.

But the more serious version of it is the one that's presented here in our topic today, which is if you think history is a rational process going to a certain destination and you're on the side of that history, then certainly any opposition is akin to you know bacteria that are bad for your health and things like that in medicine um and and i think that becomes the unconscious premise of an awful lot of progressives who don't they haven't read hegel they don't thought this stuff through but they come to believe it because it's easy to believe in comforting but what i want to do now though is draw this to a close and have a quick break and then come back and let's get out with just quickly a couple of news items from this week that i think are I shouldn't laugh, but they're a little bit funny and ironic, but also illustrative of some aspects of what we're talking about.

So don't go away, folks.

And perhaps gathering force, you know, at first during the Reagan administration, but then in academia and through informal networks.

These, this group of people who became, came to be known as the neoconservatives, people like Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld, William Crystal, Charles Krauthammer, all of these characters.

What they decided was that, first of all, they recognized what this moment meant for American power.

They recognized that the US had this unique opportunity to remold the world.

Uh, a lot of people.

Um, uh, and actually, uh, Charles Krauthammer's column-

Mm-hmm

... was always syndicated there.